Each year the Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust (formerly the New Zealand Federation of University Women (Auckland Branch) Charitable Trust) offers the following Awards for women enrolled or planning to enrol at The University of Auckland, the Albany Campus of
Massey University, Unitec, Northland Polytechnic, Te Wanaga O Aotearoa,
Manukau or
Whangarei, or Te Whare Wananga O Awanuiarangi, Auckland.
1. Tressa Thomas Retraining Awards - variable awards to assist mature women to prepare to return to a profession or to take up work (paid or unpaid) in the community. Value: $1,500 each. Closing dates: 31 March and 31 July.
2. New Start Award - two awards paid in installments over a six semester period, to assist women students from the New Start Programme to study towards a degree. Value: $15,000. Closing date: 11 November.
3. Millennium Undergraduate Awards - no longer available.
4. Foundation Awards -
a number of awards to assist women, who have completed a Foundation
Course at tertiary level and who
have enrolled in full time study for their first degree or diploma at an
approved institution to meet course expenses.
Value: $1,000. Closing date: 17 February.
5. Final Year Bachelor with Honours Degree Award - one award to assist a woman in her final year of study for a first degree.
Value: $6,000. Closing date: 17 December.
6. Postgraduate Diploma Award - one award to assist a woman study for a Post-Graduate Diploma.
Value: $6,000. Closing date: 17 December.
7. Masters Degree by Coursework Awards - one award to assist a
woman graduate to carry out a Masters Degree by Coursework at an
approved institution in the Auckland area.
Value: $7,000. Closing date: 17 February.
8. Masters Degree by Research Awards -
to assist a woman to study for a Masters
Degree which has at least a 70% research component.
Value: $7,000. Closing date: 17 February.
9. Post-Doctoral Research Awards - two awards to assist women who have graduated with a doctoral degree within the last four years to carry out research on a limited term project.
Value: $15,000 each. Closing dates: 17 February and 31 July.
Application forms are available from:
Discretionary Grants. The Trust reserves the right to make discretionary grants for educational purposes on an as and when appropriate basis.
The Trustees will continue to monitor the value of these awards and to be proactive in introducing new awards, so that the Trust's Funds are used to promote actively the objects and purposes of the Trust Deed.
17December 2005
